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• Does Size Really Matter?

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 127
  Danielle Steele’s novels are automatically superior to Leo Tolstoy’s novels, right? That’s must be the conclusion if you adopt the logic of a common contemporary Republican talking point: Big documents are automatically inferior to short documents. Increasingly, it seems Republican pols and pundits love to ...
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• Leo Tolstoy – select quotes

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 147
  Art is not pleasure, or an amusement; art is a great matter. ~ in What Is Art? God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission. ~ in Wise Thoughts for Every Day: On God, Love, Spirit, and Living a Good Life Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed ...
  4 days ago

• Waiter, Theres Some Grebeshki in My Turtle Soup

  
  Paper Cuts — Authority: 603
  Hungry for a Tolstoy fix? Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the dynamic duo of Russian translation, are back with a new rendering of "The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories," in bookstores this week.
  5 days ago

• Childhood Boyhood Youth by Lev Tolstoy

  
  The Armenian Odar Reads — Authority: 104
  I read Childhood Boyhood Youth in Dutch translation ( Kindertijd Jeugdjaren Jongelingschap ). I had read Anna Karenina , War and Peace , Hadji Murat , The Prisoner of the Caucasus and The Kreutzer Sonata years ago and I liked them. I found Tolstoy very readable. The same goes for Childhood Boyhood Youth , ...
  5 days ago

• Soap Isn’t A Stranger Offering Candy, It’s Your Friend

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Seriously, there is absolutely nothing that can be done to turn a discussion of soap into something with the passion of a Jackie Collins novel, the drama of a Tolstoy novel or the riveting action of a John Grisham novel. It?s soap.Still, despite the fact that we take soap for granted there are important [...]
  1 week ago

• Reel People: Helen Mirren is Sofya Tolstoy

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 169
  The film is The Last Station written and directed by Michael Hoffman, based on the novel The Last Station by Jay Parini . Sofya Tolstoy Sofya Tolstoy (or Sophia Tolstaya) is famous primarily for her marriage to Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, author of such classics as Anna Karenina and War And Peace . ...
  1 week ago

• Sunday Quotes 11.22.09

  
  JonClaytonBizBlog — Authority: 136
  “Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy “In a moment of crisis we will not rise to the occasion, we will default to our training.” — Unknown “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United ...
  1 week ago

• Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)

  
  #1 Books Read All — Authority: 148
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• Quotes, Pics, and Clips VI

  
  Gently Hew Stone — Authority: 124
  I’m resurrecting an installment I used to do, a bite-sized anthology of things I had recently seen or been thinking about in the various areas that interest me.  Here are the first five parts of this series: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V.ARTSLike him or not, it’s fun watching Jackson Pollock [...]
  1 week ago

• Pushing Boundaries with Trauma and Genre

  
  It's Not All Gravy — Authority: 124
  Maryann: Please join me in welcoming guest blogger, LK Hunsaker. Hi Maryann! It’s great to be here to talk with you and your readers today. Since your blog focuses on the absurdities of life, I thought I’d talk about Pushing Boundaries with Trauma and Genre. I’m a big fan of mainstream/literary fiction: those ...
  1 week ago

• t was a long time before she would get to sleep. She kept...

  
  Considering Lily — Authority: 482
  t was a long time before she would get to sleep. She kept thinking that no one could understand all the things that she understood, & all that was in her. —Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
  1 week ago

• Film: The House of Tolstoy, in His Winter

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Michael Hoffman directs Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren, who plays Tolstoy’s wife, Sofya.
  1 week ago

• The Last Station

  
  The Search — Authority: 412
  A film about the final days of Russian author Leo Tolstoy ( War and Peace , Anna Karenina ) may sound like a bore to the average moviegoer, and indeed, The Last Station is admittedly a very bookish, Merchant Ivory sort of film. But it’s also utterly engrossing, superbly acted, and full of big ideas that ring very ...
  1 week ago

• Accursed Questions: Translating Russian Literature

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear are renowned contemporary translators of Russian literature. To date, they have collaborated to bring 16 key new editions of Russian novels to the English language, from Tolstoy and Gogol, to Chekhov and Dostoyevsky. And they are currently working on a new translation of Nobel ...
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• he is here

  
  la porte rouge — Authority: 121
  well he is here, who is he you ask? well as a very talented friend is clearly on her way to giving birth to her second child( so exciting) bisou aran!!!!!. we have brought home another member of the family. a (big) percheron Friesian horse. i have named him tolstoy( although no one seems to care for the name). until ...
  2 weeks ago

• Russian Film Week ’09: Anna Karenina

  
  J.B. Spins — Authority: 132
  “A great Russian brand” is how director Sergei Solovyev described Leo Tolstoy in a press conference held last night. He also credited Oprah Winfrey for helping bring his screen adaptation of Anna Karenina to fruition when she recommended it to her Pavlovian viewers, making an unlikely bestseller of the Nineteenth ...
  2 weeks ago

• A novel approach to politics

  
  Inveresk Street Ingrate — Authority: 131
  Back to the Socialist Standard . There are long term plans to digitise every issue of the Socialist Standard going back to September 1904, in order that they can be made available online for anyone and everyone to read but, in the meantime, the work of posting articles of interest from old Socialist Standards ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cite your sources, please

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 441
  Today I was reading a passage about Leo Tolstoy in the book A Faith and Culture Devotional . Parts of the book are used in an on-line guide, so this link is to that. I have the print copy. (Its a wonderful book in case youre looking for Christmas ideas.) The passage about Tolstoy’s treatment of his wife Sophia ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Anarchist Objections to Law and State”

  
  .urbandissent — Authority: 104
  I just wanted to share with you the following, taken from a Legal, Jurisprudence Textbook. It has to be one of the most objective overviews of Anarchism I’ve seen around, which is surprising considering the extract was contained in a textbook intended for potentially hostile audiences — law schools. The Limits ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Kreutzer Sonata at Gate Theatre review

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  A thrillingly dark adaptation of Tolstoys incendiary novella. Rating:
  3 weeks ago

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